City fish: an analysis of demand for and value of urban sport fishing in Tucson and Scottsdale, Arizona

Published in 1979

This study evaluated the demand for and value of urban sport fishing in the Phoenix and Tucson Metropolitan Areas during the 1977-78 fiscal year. This form of outdoor recreation is analyzed by both consumers' surplus and non-discriminating monopolist methods using demand curves estimated by ordinary least squares regression. Both Clawson-Hotelling travel—cost and willingness-to-pay approaches were used. The primary objective of this research was to obtain a new economic value of the experimental one-year urban fishing program using primary data from personal interviews with anglers and cost figures supplied by the Arizona Department of Game and Fish. "The secondary objective of the study was to evaluate certain non-economic aspects of the program that might influence plans for future urban fishing projects. The end results of the analysis are net economic values for urban fishing in Arizona and implications for future programs. Analysis points out some facets of the program and its participants lending credence to the hypothesis that this form o f recreation may be an inferior good. While the value o f consumers' surplus would likely exceed the costs of a continuing program, collectable revenues would likely be less than costs

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